Roadschool Trip to London: Wallace Collection & Petrie Museum

 

London — Wallace Collection & Petrie Museum The Wallace Collection is a museum in Manchester Square, London. It is located inside the beautiful Hertford House, home of the Marquesses of Hertford, but named after Sir Richard Wallace, who curated the collection in the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection features art ranging from the 15th to 19th centuries, including furniture, arms and armor, paintings, and decorative arts. Visitors to the area will appreciate that it is a free museum. Among the Collection's treasures are an outstanding array of 18th-century French art, many important 17th and 19th-century paintings, medieval and Renaissance works of art, and one of the finest collections of princely arms and armor in all of Britain!

Petrie Museum

Tucked away on the campus of University College London is one of the most amazing hidden collections of Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology — the Petrie Museum. If your teen is into Egyptian mythology, hieroglyphs, or even Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles, they're going to love this curated set of antiquities.

The initial collection was donated by the an author, who sponsored college professors on excavations. The first Edwards Professor, William Flinders Petrie, conducted many such excavations, and in 1913 he sold his collections of Egyptian antiquities to University College, creating the Flinders Petrie Collection of Egyptian Antiquities. This transformed the small museum into one of the leading collections outside Egypt, and it maintains that status today.

Medieval Art

Medieval art was produced in many media, including sculpture, stained glass, mosaics, metalwork, and illuminated manuscripts, all of which survive in many forms today. Frescoes and tapestries were also prevalent, but there aren't as many surviving pieces. While a common misconception is that most medieval art was religious, this is far from true. The church did spend quite a bit on art, but there was also much secular art, though it did not fare as well due to not being preserved in the same methods as the larger church collections.

It was expensive to make many of these pieces. As an example, when the Jarrow Abbey began to make three (3) copies of the Bible, they had to begin with breeding 1600 calves so they would have the skins needed for the required vellum! Paper did not become available until the end of the medieval age, and it was still incredibly expensive.

Churches were adorned in frescoes with scenes from the life of Christ, Old Testament scenes, and those of the Last Judgement. Secular works often featured knightly heroism or courtly love. The vast majority of narrative medieval art, however, depicted religious events. Even today, the elements of medieval art have still proved an inspiration for many modern artists.

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Pick up activities and worksheets to augment your real or virtual trip in the unit study bundle below!

Explore the art, history, geography, food, and culture of England in this cross-curricular unit study….perfect for families getting ready to travel abroad or folks who want to travel via unit studies!  Each stop along the roadschooling trip covers a different facet of history and culture with unit information, resources, worksheets, activities, and more...  

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Table of Contents:

• o Introduction & Geography of England
• o Portsmouth
  • o The Mary Rose & naval archaeology
• o London
  • o The British Museum & archaeology
  • o The Wallace Collection & medieval history
  • o The Tower of London / London Bridge & the Tudors
  • o Buckingham Palace & royalty
  • o Victoria and Albert Museum & medieval art
  • o Thames / Globe Theater & Shakespeare
  • o Sherlock Holmes Museum & British Literature
  • o Abbey Road & British Invasion
• o Leeds
  • o Royal Armouries & middle ages
• o York
  • o Jorvik & Vikings
  • o York Castle & archaeology
• o Haltwhistle
  • o Hadrian’s Wall & ancient Celts
  • o Vindolanda & archaeology
• o Alnwick
  • o Alnwick Castle & architecture
  • o Poison Garden & herbs
  • o Barter Books & WW2 history
• o Alnmouth
  • o North Sea & train history
• o Newcastle o Segedunum & ancient Romans
• o Tips & Tricks for Travelling in England